Coalition head Miki Zohar (Likud) discussed the budget crisis during an interview In Channel 12 News today. "We're still demanding a Ine-year budget and are halfway at the point of going to elections," he said.

Sources in the Likud addressed FM Gabi Ashkenazi's attacks In their party in light of the budget crisis."Ashkenazi has set out In his primaries campaign. He wants to replace Gantz more so than he wants to replace Netanyahu. Blue and White need to allow the budget to pass so that Israeli children can begin the schoolyear as planned and the government can continue working for the good of its citizens," they said.

During closed talks with party members, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi addressed the Ingoing dispute with the Likud."Netanyahu will do everything he can to stay in office. We shouldn't give in to his demands. If he is determined to have another elections, let's see him do it," Ashkenazi said during an interview with Kan News.

Sources in Blue and White reacted to the Likud's attacks against FM Ashkenazi and other party members."Netanyahu wants elections out of personal considerations. Everything else is a smoke screen. Likud seems to have forgotten that there are a million unemployed citizens. Netanyahu would do better to pull his ministers out of the TV studios and get them back to working In the coronavirus crisis," read a statement from the party.

Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi says Netanyahu will do anything to remain prime minister, Likud says Ashkenazi is undermining Gantz.

The Ministry of Health reported that it had made a mistake in the number of virus-caused deaths in nursing homes around the country and that the total now stands at 781.Since midnight last night, 1,111 additional cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed.

Coronavirus Czar Prof. Roni Gamzu wants to impose restrictions during September holidays, but PM Netanyahu wants them sooner.

Naftali Bennett reacted to an Arutz Sheva report that Netanyahu had instructed Likud MKs to attack the Yamina chairman due to his recent rise in polls."It saddens me to see a privileged statesman engaged in petty politics instead of worrying about the needs of a nation," Bennett tweeted.